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30 Dec 2011, 6:37 am
Their second most popular data app was their Texas inmate database, a service which duplicates one on the TDCJ website, which came in at just over 5 million page views.With web-traffic flagging, more media are putting unfiltered government data online precisely because of numbers like those - they look at their web traffic and see their prose isn't nearly the draw they hoped it might be, but database apps get much more traffic. [read post]
28 Dec 2011, 10:22 am
TDCJ’s turnover rate was 19.2 percent in fiscal year 2011. [read post]
26 Dec 2011, 8:20 am
If his conviction in 1986 had never been overturned, Morton's would remain a secret tragedy, like hundreds or probably thousands of others in TDCJ. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 3:06 pm
See the Houston Chronicle's coverage.MORE: And the obligatory holiday-themed crime, via the Bryan-College Station Eagle. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 6:54 am
Last July, UTMB announced 50 unfilled positions would remain vacant and 130 health-care workers would be laid off, 24 of which were mental health care workers.Staffing cuts in turn increased the inmate-to-staff ratio from 58 to one upward to 65 inmates for every mental health care worker.See related Grits posts:Cuts to mental health may leave Texas jails housing more mentally illPrison health costs from new UTMB deal obliterate claimed TDCJ budget savings'State funding doesn't… [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 1:16 pm
CSCDs that did not receive additional diversion funding showed increases in felony revocations to TDCJ. [read post]
11 Dec 2011, 8:29 am
" The petition author, whose father is incarcerated in a TDCJ facility, "has launched a second campaign on the popular social action platform calling on the American Correctional Association to uphold its standards and remove ACA accreditation from any prison that does not serve three daily meals to its prisoners. [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 8:43 am
In a practice that wouldn't be allowed in today's TDCJ, he "began writing stories to support his young daughter while he was in prison," moving to New York to continue his career after his release.According to the Houston Chronicle's coverage in 1985, O Henry's (i.e, William Sydney Porter's) federal pardon application, championed by supporters including late-Texas state appellate court Judge Trueman O'Quinn, was turned down at that time because… [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 5:13 am
But clearly from this notice, TDCJ and legislators must look elsewhere in the near term to reduce costs. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 8:05 am
According to TDCJ, Texas' first scheduled execution of 2012 is set for January 26. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 6:40 am
As Grits wrote yesterday, the only real way to reduce costs at TDCJ is to change policies to incarcerate fewer people. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 11:26 am
Those things cost money.We have passed the point where TDCJ can find savings by cutting "waste. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 5:41 pm
I offered a conservative guess that, according to the best estimates, somewhere between 2,000 to 3,000 innocent people are presently incarcerated in TDCJ, and faulty eyewitness identification was the cause in 75-80% of the cases.I quickly walked through IPOT's specific concerns from our written comments, and in closing reminded the academics that, despite pleas for flexibility from law enforcement, their model policy will not be binding. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 7:49 am
"They're right that the Sunset process presents a great opportunity to pursue changes at TDCJ, the Board of Pardons and Parole, and also the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, all of which are up for review in 2012-13. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 3:50 am
But the state could sure use one.RELATED: From October, see "Bubble in expanding life sentences, LWOP driving TDCJ health costs for older inmates. [read post]
26 Nov 2011, 7:05 am
Much as with Judge Adams, every day Anderson remains on the bench taints and demeans not just the integrity of Texas' judiciary but the entire legal profession.Opportunity for activismSpeaking of the Commission on Judicial Conduct, they're up for Sunset review along with TDCJ and the Board of Pardons and Paroles, and you can see their self-evaluation report here (pdf). [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 7:06 am
But there's no more fat to cut at TDCJ: Either the Lege must enact policies that let TDCJ reduce inmate numbers and close more prisons, or else live with a ever-increasing incarceration bill paid for with higher taxes.Perhaps Rep. [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 12:57 pm
TDCJ notes that five executions are already scheduled for 2012. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 7:03 am
TDCJ notes that five executions are already scheduled for 2012. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 6:46 pm
And they'd have us believe that the "obstacle" to fixing this problem is that the board should have more control over TDCJ parole officers? [read post]
